National construction and civil engineering company JN Bentley has launched a new company website.

The new website not only covers JN Bentley but Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) too – our successful joint venture company that offers full feasibility, design, construction and commissioning services.

The site contains company information, background on our proud heritage, award wins, project case studies and a dedicated careers area where potential candidates can read about why JN Bentley is a great place to work and browse current vacancies.

The site also houses all news stories and press releases – they will no longer be posted on www.jnbentley-news.co.uk.

National design and construction company Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has enjoyed success in a number of categories at Northumbrian Water’s sixth Going the Extra Mile (GEM) Awards.

Held at the Radisson Blu Hotel in Durham city centre, Northumbrian Water’s annual GEM Awards acknowledge the achievements of their framework partners over the past twelve months.

The hard work and accomplishments of MMB – currently delivering work with Northumbrian Water on two frameworks covering both treatment and infrastructure – were widely recognised on the evening, enjoying success in seven out of ten shortlisted categories, including the much sought-after Health, Safety and Wellbeing Award.

MMB Design Director, Colin Nichol, said, “It is great to see that everyone’s hard-work is paying off. It has been a busy year delivering a variety of projects and moving to new co-located premises at Seaham, but our teams have worked tirelessly and I’m delighted that Northumbrian Water have recognised these efforts.”

Here is a summary of MMB’s success on the night:

MMB picked up the Health, Safety and Wellbeing Award for embedding an established safety culture into a new workforce. The last twelve months has seen MMB form its AMP6 team in the North East, which posed the challenge of embedding an industry-leading safety culture into a new, larger team. MMB has achieved this by ensuring every employee receives extensive and appropriate health and safety guidance from the first day of work, which immediately puts a strong health and safety culture at the forefront of everyone’s minds.

MMB’s Grassholme Emergency Drawdown and Hydro Electricity Project won the Environmental Sustainability Award. Working with the client’s project team, MMB installed a hydroelectric turbine as a sustainable power source, which was recognised for having sustainability and environmental management high on the agenda.

At Howden Sewage Treatment Works, MMB’s scheme to replace the valves at the primary effluent pumping station (PEPS) was highly commended in the Project of the Year category. The scheme was one of the largest raw sewage over pumping schemes carried out in the UK last year, and was successfully delivered under budget with no environmental or reportable safety incidents.

In the Team of the Year category, MMB and fellow contract partner Interserve teamed up to claim the award for the delivery of the Minor Works Programme of Works, carrying out repairs and modifications to assets across the region.

MMB’s approach to programme management was also recognised, as part of a joint-entry into the Programme Management category, where the team’s collaborative approach to meeting key regulatory outputs was celebrated.

Finally, MMB is a key player in both the Run2Lean Working Group, which picked up the Innovation Award, and the Run2Academy Working Group, which won the Legacy Award.

National civil engineering and construction company JN Bentley has attended the National Apprenticeship Shows at the Yorkshire Event Centre in Harrogate, the first of three shows at which the business will exhibit over the next few months.

The show promotes apprenticeships to all secondary schools within a two hour drive time of each venue, with around 8,000 students expected to visit each event.

An apprenticeship at JN Bentley opens up a number of future career prospects in the construction and civil engineering industry, whether you’re interested in working in a core operational role or business support, you’ll be able to ‘learn whilst you earn’, working in the area you enjoy the most.

Visit our website to find out more about the opportunities available and how you could join the Bentley Academy and build your career with us.

The night saw JN Bentley, MMB and JBA Bentley pick up five prizes at a ceremony held in the grand surroundings of the National Railway Museum in York.

MMB’s scheme at Butterley Impounding Reservoir at Marsden, West Yorkshire, won the Smeaton Award for projects greater than £500,000 and less than £5m.

The project incorporates significant investment to ensure that the only Grade II listed spillway in the United Kingdom, continues to guarantee the safety of the residents of Marsden and beyond, whilst trying to maintain its legacy long into the future.

Mark Duquemin, ICE Awards Secretary for Yorkshire and Humber, said, “The Butterley spillway project successfully delivered a sensitive upgrade of a listed structure making it fit for the 21st century. The judges were impressed, in particular, by the project team’s approach to health and safety, collaborative design and construction.”

MMB Operations Manager Chris Wilcock told us, “The award is gratification for the effort and dedication shown by the team involved with Butterley.

“It is testament for facing issues head on as a team, and for maintaining outstanding standards of health and safety throughout.”

MMB’s project replacing all the corroded metalwork within the valve towers at Digley Reservoir was awarded a Certificate of Excellence, and projects at Flamborough Head, where the pumping station was relocated, and JBA Bentley’s Chantry Cottages scheme, where stabilisation improvements were made to 1km of flood embankment, were both highly commended.

Finally, JN Bentley Project Leader Nasar Adam won the New Ambassador Award for his work to engage students in civil engineering and other STEM (science, technology, engineering, and maths) subjects.

Nasar said, “As an ICE Ambassador, I have been given the opportunity to help give back to local schools. It’s a great feeling when you can see the students engaging with the subjects and beginning to understand what is involved with being an engineer.”

The Review provides an overview of projects from across the business, including those delivered by our joint venture companies Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) and JBA Bentley (JBA-B).

It also covers important areas such as health and safety, environmental management, training and development, wellbeing, and community.

The Review also celebrates successes and memorable events from 2016, including royal visits, the beginning of a roll out of a state-of-the-art bespoke IT system, and our reaction to the severe winter floods.

You can read JN Bentley’s Annual Review below, or download the document here.

Interested in joining the ever-growing JN Bentley team? Read more on our website.

JN Bentley’s placement and graduate opportunities for 2017 are now open for applications.

We’re looking for talented individuals to join our teams across the UK – with placement and graduate opportunities available across various disciplines, from civil engineering and quantity surveying to accounting and communications.

Read how you can ‘Build your career @ JN Bentley’ in the brochure below, and start your application by clicking here.

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National design and construction company Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has been recognised at Northumbrian Water’s ‘Going the Extra Mile’ – or GEM – Awards.

Held at the Beamish Hall Hotel in County Durham, Northumbrian Water’s GEM Awards recognise the achievements of their framework partners during the past year.

MMB was acknowledged in five GEM awards categories in all.

The tireless efforts of MMB’s Peter Brodie were recognised by Northumbrian Water as they jointly-awarded him the Individual Contribution prize.

Mechanical and electrical engineer Peter, who has worked at MMB since 2005, has worked tirelessly to deliver projects to a high standard, driving value, working closely with the supply chain and ensuring those around him are happy and engaged.

Success for MMB continued into the evening, as they were highly commended in the Team of the Year category for their minor works sub-programme at sewage treatment works across the region.

Working closely with fellow contract partner Interserve, MMB has provided a high standard of service when delivering both planned and reactive works. A genuine team approach has helped ensure the right solution is delivered on every site. By working together, efficiencies of over £1.1 million have been achieved.

MMB’s work on the ‘Water UK’ security programme secured finalist places in both the Health and Safety and Programme of the Year categories, and work to safely abandon assets secured a place in the final of the Environmental Sustainability category.

Operations manager, Peter Long, said, “It is excellent that the hard work of the team has been recognised by our long-term client, Northumbrian Water. The team has worked tirelessly in recent months to get AMP6 off to a safe and successful start.

“With a new office on the horizon and plenty of exciting schemes on the decks, it is a great time to be working in the north east.”

National design and construction company Mott MacDonald Bentley (MMB) has picked up not one, not two, but three health and safety awards working as part of Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water’s Capital Delivery Alliance.

The Alliance has been presented with the Health and Safety Excellence and Healthy Work Awards at the Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water 10th Annual Health and Safety Conference, and presented with a prestigious RoSPA Gold Award for Health and Safety from the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents.

Successful members of the Alliance collect their certificates.

The Alliance was formed two years ago, in readiness for the start of AMP6. It is a collaborative working enterprise comprising five capital delivery partners (CDPs – MMB, Skanska, Morgan Sindall, Arcadis and Arup), all of whom are all working closely with Welsh Water to ensure safe and efficient delivery of the AMP6 investment programme.

The awards are recognition for all of the hard work and commitment of the Alliance partners in Year 1 of AMP6.

Quality, Environment and Safety (QES) Advisor for MMB, Jason Handley, said, “To achieve these three awards is a tremendous first step for the Alliance and only point towards bigger and better things in the future.”

Nick Parkin, Head of Alliance at Welsh Water, commented, “This is a great achievement for the Alliance, which is down to the hard work and commitment of the Health and Safety Professional’s from each of our businesses working collaboratively, sharing knowledge, experience and best practice.”

Creating a world-class health and safety culture is at the heart of the Capital Delivery Alliance. A variety of innovative approaches are used – including the use of visual standards (pictured) which have been adopted by the Alliance – to engage employees and improve standards.

Awards like this demonstrate our on-going commitment to achieving zero injuries and zero instances of work-related ill-health. Learn more about our work with Dŵr Cymru Welsh Water here.

Environmental engineering specialist JBA Bentley has been commended by the Institution of Civil Engineers (ICE) for team achievement whilst working alongside the Environment Agency to deliver the Flood Defence Asset Repair Programme of Works.

The ICE in the East Midlands presented JBA Bentley with the Team Achievement commendation at a ceremony held at the Belfy Hotel in Nottingham.

Photo Credit – Institution of Civil Engineers

The Asset Repair Programme of Works, currently worth up to a projected £13 million, is delivering repairs to flood defences across Lincolnshire and Northamptonshire. These defences will protect properties, critical infrastructure and prime agricultural land from both fluvial and tidal flooding.

Both teamwork and leadership have been essential to the successful delivery of a challenging programme. The attitude of the team is outstanding; everyone is working hard to ensure that the programme is being delivered efficiently, safely and within budget.

Operations Manager, Ian Bester, said, “This programme is extremely important as it is protecting such a significant number of properties and infrastructure. The team has gone from a standing start in 2014, establishing themselves in Peterborough and developing strong relationships with the client which has contributed towards securing further work. This is testament to everyone’s hard work and commitment to the programme.

“The strong sense of teamwork and leadership between all of the different parties involved in the scheme is proving critical to its success.”

The JBA Bentley Limited joint venture between civil engineering contractor JN Bentley, and water and environmental specialists, JBA Consulting, was established in 2013, and has delivered a number of successful schemes across the UK.

JBA Bentley Limited is a joint venture between JN Bentley and JBA Consulting, established in 2013. The partnership brings together the specialist skills and expertise of two firms: civil engineering contractor JN Bentley and environmental consultant and designer JBA Consulting.

Natural Resources Wales is a Welsh Government Sponsored Body, responsible for ensuring that the environment and natural resources of Wales are sustainably maintained, sustainably enhanced and sustainably used, now and in the future.

The principle of sustainability is shared by JBA Bentley and over the lifetime of this framework there will be a focus on keeping project expenditure within Wales through the use of local labour and materials, establishing regional supply chains, and promoting the sustainability and community benefits of projects.

JBA Bentley is well positioned to deliver this framework. JBA’s existing office in Newport means that we have a strong regional presence and our track record of delivering projects for National Resources Wales, such as the Crindau Pill Flood Alleviation Scheme, means that we have a good understanding of the needs of our client and the communities they serve.